Which came first: the carob or the orange? The Internet does not give a shit…

On the other hand, Maltese archbishop Charles Scicluna has kept up the strict Vatican line against fruitarian miscegenation: under the rule of God, oranges should marry oranges and carobs should stick to their own. Or at least that’s what we think he is saying.

It’s barely 24 hours since the Maltese parliament voted by 66 votes to 1 to introduce marriage equality, making Malta the 15th country to legalise same-sex marriages.

But Archbishop Charles Scicluna’s day started with a tweet on one of the metaphors he used throughout the short debate on gay marriage to play down the claims for equality: carobs, he said, cannot be oranges, even though the law says so.

That may be as well, but thankfully for us, he has unleashed a storm on Twitter that will probably keep us busy for the rest of the day.

"Good morning, Carob", said the Orange Tree. "Did not the Law say that we are equal? I see that you are still a Carob and I an Orange Tree". pic.twitter.com/pz10ZXKOQA